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May 24, 2019

Path to Migration

Joseph Zaccardi A Wolf Stands in Water

“When a thought from the past fires the soul,” writes the poet Joseph Zaccardi of a wartime memory, “time is no more.” And yet it clings to the present.

April 28, 2019

Walt Whitman’s Guide to a Thriving Democracy

Mark Edmundson The Atlantic

America had a mind shaped by its Founders, but the country needed the poet to discover its spirit.

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May 10, 2019

Skin Hymn

Tanuja Wakefield Undersong

Tanuja Wakefield, daughter of Indian immigrants, depicts the anguish and anger of being taunted for the color of her skin.

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April 26, 2019

Sanctuary

Peter Neil Carroll North American Review

Peter Neil Carroll’s “Sanctuary” honors the work of Proactiva Open Arms, a non-governmental volunteer group of lifeguards who rescue refugees at sea.

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March 29, 2019

Abe & Jack, Milt, Moe, Dave…

Peter Neil Carroll Chiron Review

Peter Neil Carroll's poetry pays homage to the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who left a legacy of fighting fascism.

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March 21, 2019

Brecht’s Poetry: Angry or Evil?

Michael Wood The London Review of Books

An extended ode to the revolutionary German playwright-genius Bertolt Brecht, whose exhaustive new collected poems exalt combating injustice while keeping faith in his fidelity to dissent.

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March 22, 2019

School photo: The Jewish school, Warsaw 1929

Jane Spiro Intimate Riches in a Little Room

For the London-born poet Jane Spiro, her father’s school photo taken in 1929 represents the “before” but cannot foresee the changes that await a Polish-born Jewish boy.

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March 1, 2019

The Business of Guns

Anne Champion Chiron Review

Massachusetts poet Anne Champion raises a protest against the sale of guns and weapons of mass destruction.

January 31, 2019

Tidbits - Jan. 31, 2019 - Reader Comments: Trump Shutdown; What LA Teachers Won; Impeach Trump; Roger Stone; Venezuela - Opposition to Coup, Resources to fight; Elizabeth Warren; Angela Davis Re-Awarded; Black History Month Events;

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February 8, 2019

Invasive Species

Amit Majmudar Massachusetts Review

Taking a global perspective, Ohio poet Amit Majmudar masterfully links issues of ecology and refugees.

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